Polymer based 3D printing producers have been getting hammered in the stock market lately so investors are starting to look at the next phase: metal 3D printing, which has been identified as the next area for industry growth (and financial gains) and the attention has turned to quoted companies such as Arcam, which just reported a 70% increase in sales in Q1, and SLM Solutions, which announced it intends to go public on the Frankfurt index in the upcoming weeks.
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Additive manufacturing technologies are developing so rapidly, while prices are continuing to drop and mainstream adoption is getting ever so close. These could be the key ingredients to what may lead to several ind-3industries, worth trillions of dollars, being turned upside down. We aren’t there yet, but in the next 7-10 years 3D printing will have become, not just a cool technology, but an idea which will be entangled within everyone’s daily lives.
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Without a doubt, their is a tremendous amount of suffering in this world. People are starving to death every day, many lack a warm shelter to come home to, and numerous governments around the globe are oppressing utopia-1their people. The word “Utopia” likely isn’t something that could ever be imagined by many of these individuals, but it may be closer than we all think.
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3D printing design studios and 3D print shops are now popping up all over the world. Little wonder. On the back of a few years of global media coverage, the growing attention of design professionals, and the genuine realisation that 3D printing technologies are at a stage where end products, not just prototypes, can be produced at proportionately appropriate costs, the stage is set for the ongoing growth of the 3D printing industry. In South Africa, one such business is Rabbit, based in Cape town and offering a range of services from 3D scanning to 3D printing, design to consultancy.
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Collaborative 3D printer network 3D Hubs has released its April trend report today. This time, based its data on over 4000 printers in the network and thousands of 3D print jobs, the report shows the value of average order per category for the first time to give you a good insight in what the spending pattern is per category.
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Currently compounding various strategic partnerships between 3DP industry leaders with highly successful giants in office hardware and software manufacturers and suppliers, 3D Systems has announced a further expansion of its partnership with Canon Marketing Japan to include the complete range of ProJet professional series 3D printers, the CubeX desktop 3D printer and Geomagic scan-to-CAD software solutions. You’ll recall that Canon Marketing Japan began selling 3D Systems’ products towards the end of last year. This news resides alongside the official opening of 3D Systems centres as part of a partnership with Staples.
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Two Singaporean institutes have teamed up to develop innovative products and devices that can shape the future of oral health care. A new partnership between National Dental Centre Singapore (NDCS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) will focus on fostering research collaborations and grooming more clinician scientists in Singapore.
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